Nine Blacks and 24 Latinos!

[Dondilion]

New mayor of New York city Bill Di Blasio plans to change the entry to
NYC elite schools from a single test.

The object: to up the entry of Latinos and Blacks.

At one of the elite public high school out of a student body of
800 there are only 9 Blacks and 24 Latinos.

These schools have a dominant Asian population although Asians are
about 12% of the population of the City.
Blacks - 25%, Latinos 27% (2010 census)

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1498580

[finnbow]

Conservatives will be wringing the hands over this for sure.

[Dondilion]

This is a New York Times year 2008 article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/ny...anted=all&-r=0

[bobabode]

It sure is nice to have a Progressive Democrat mayor in New York, N.Y. again.
Maybe it'll catch on elsewhere.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by bobabode

It sure is nice to have a Progressive Democrat mayor in New York, N.Y. again.
Maybe it'll catch on elsewhere.

He needs help from the Black and Latino parents and kids.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by bobabode

It sure is nice to have a Progressive Democrat mayor in New York, N.Y. again.
Maybe it'll catch on elsewhere.

If the Repubs keep on opening their mouths only to change feet there should be change, if the Dems finally speak up.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Conservatives will be wringing the hands over this for sure.

Over knowing that Asians are smarter and work harder than the Oh-So-Exceptional-WASP American types? Wouldn't surprise me at all. We've seen how they react to a less than pure white president. And NO, I'm not suggesting this has anything to do with race. In fact, I accuse you of being racist for thinking thay I am suggesting that they are racist.

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by bobabode

It sure is nice to have a Progressive Democrat mayor in New York, N.Y. again.
Maybe it'll catch on elsewhere.

Detroit?

Pete

[donquixote99]

I think you guys are in the habit of assigning totally bogus meaning to events in Detroit.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Detroit?

Pete

Pete that does not spell well for my Big Apple.

Anyhow, the New York Asians especially the Chinese are focused and driven
when it comes to education.

The parent (in Brooklyn often an illegal) is just off the boat and he knows
everything which the NY system requires of his kid to get into an excellent public school.

So he puts his kid into private Saturday school operated by usually a Chinese tutor. The focus is English and Maths.

When the time comes to take that test for elite schools that kid is sharp.
The child gets into one of those schools he is now looking at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Brown etc.

So in one generation the New York Chinese get a rung up on the social ladder.

Compare to the Black or Hispanic parent. He/she is usually unaware of these schools, their implication, the test, until the year the child is to take the test.